1. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  2. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  3. This is an excerpt from “All Charges Dropped! Devotional Narratives from Earthly Courtrooms to the Throne of Grace,” written by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  4. “There,” the Queen said, “That’s so much better than talking, isn’t it?”
  5. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  6. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  7. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  8. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  9. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.